Lepod's Blog

We got here at about 5:30 am – plane to Paris leaves at 10:40 – still it’s a very nice airport. Anyway, from Peterborough we had to drive to a donut shop near Niagara falls as Simon was meeting a friend there and leaving us. So we had an interesting drive through the middle of Toronto’s motorway system and a coffee and sandwich at the donut shop, then Pauline and I thought we’d better see the Falls as we were passing right by there. Well the Canadian side of the town is like a very tacky version of Queenstown, with casinos, tattoo parlours, and gazillions of tourists. Funnily enough the US side is a national park and not tacky at all. However, we braved the sudden thunderstorm, (we’d been having thunderstorms most afternoons, and believe me driving on the freeway in the middle of one can be a bit hairy,) and walked to the best viewing spot. You can hear the thunder of the falls way before you see them, and they are quite spectacular alright. I’m glad we went as it’s something I’ve heard about all my life, although I agree with Pauline that I wouldn’t go out of my way to see them again. You can get a boat from the US side, and the boat goes right into the spray at the bottom, I imagine it would be quite something. You can see the boat in one of the pictures: